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'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
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'Rescue Dawn': The Sheltering Flynew
As usual, a Werner Herzog movie isn't what it looks like on the surface.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
Think Bignew
With its twin themes of race and obesity, Hairspray has a lot on its mind, but it doesn't ever forget to have fun.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Patrice Leconte's 'My Best Friend'new
Leconte seems to be under the impression that he's making a serious movie, or at least one substantially less absurd than it ought to be.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
Lars Von Trier Puts the Camera in Chargenew
In The Boss of It All, the owner of a Danish IT firm has invented the titular Boss, an absent ogre who communicates with his underlings only through e-mail.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
Grace Notesnew
Once is a different kind of musical romance.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Carney, Once
Rescue Dawnnew
Werner Herzog puts his actors through hell, with heavenly results
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
Walking on 'Sunshine'new
The movie's visuals are less astounding than they are beautiful, complete with sun shields, claustrophobic spacesuits and an ending that is actually smarter than the rest of the film.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Listen Up — Don Cheadle is on the Micnew
Cheadle chews every last little piece of fat and gristle out of the role, painting a perceptive, sharp-nosed portrait that will probably garner him another Oscar nod.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kasi Lemmons, Talk to Me
Ziggy Stardust Shines in Re-issued Labyrinthnew
Bowie holds together this uneven but still diverting exercise in fantastical production design and critters.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Henson, Labyrinth
Kiss the Chef in 'No Reservations'new
No Reservations is nothing groundbreaking, but it’s enjoyable, and a graceful, better-than-average entrant in a parade of light-drama, heart-in-the-right-place romances.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: No Reservations, Scott Hicks
Saving Parker Posey in 'Broken English'new
It makes for a sort of poetic justice that Posey's best performance in years is as a woman who needs saving.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes
Danny Boyle's Sunshinenew
Sunshine, on the other hand, definitely qualifies as serious, playing very much like Alien without the alien.
Willamette Week |
Alastair Rockoff |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
I Know Who Killed Me - You, Ms. Lohannew
It’s all an excuse for the nubile starlet to exhibit virtually every last freckle, before shrieking and whimpering while some nutjob cuts her limbs off.
Willamette Week |
Alistair Rockoff |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
The Bourne Ultimatum
Even audiences new to the Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) spy thriller franchise will respond with compulsory excitement at the elaborately orchestrated chain of exhilarating chase sequences that lead up to a philosophically satisfying whopper of a climax.
